Argentinian vice-president Cristina Kirchner and her two children, Florencia and Maximo, have been dismissed in the vast money laundering case "
Los Sauces
", named after a family real estate company, announced the justice Friday.
According to the prosecution, between January 2009 and March 2016, the former president (2007-2015), indicted in 2017 in this case, had set up "
a system of recycling funds of illegal origin through Los Sauces
" .
But justice judged the elements advanced insufficient.
The former president denounced political persecution.
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Cristina Kirchner was dismissed in several cases of alleged corruption during her two presidential terms, but remains prosecuted in certain proceedings. From 2003 to 2015, she and her husband Nestor, president from 2003 to 2007, and members of their government are suspected of having received $ 160 million in bribes from business leaders in exchange. public procurement.
The Argentine justice had already pronounced at the beginning of October a dismissal in favor of Cristina Kirchner in a case of obstruction, for the benefit of Iran, to the investigation into the attack against a Jewish mutual which had made 85 dead and 300 injured in 1994 in Buenos Aires.
She was accused of having encouraged Parliament's approval of an agreement with Tehran, providing for senior Iranian officials suspected of having ordered the attack to be heard outside Argentina, allowing them to evade justice.